The Sacred Cow and the Abominable Pig: Riddles of Food and Culture

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Página 204Staden spent nine months in 1554 in a Tupinamba village before escaping and
making his way back to Europe. What Staden saw with his own eyes was the
ritual torture of prisoners of war, their dismemberment, and the cooking,
distribution, ...

Página 218will be able to regroup or summon up the assistance of allies and return to the
fray. This kind of security implies in turn a scale of military operations that could
not be managed by groups like the Tupinamba. Their military operations
consisted ...

Página 219I wish I could say that the reason cannibalism was rejected was because states
and empires like Sumeria, Egypt, Han China, Rome, or Persia had "higher"
religious and moral values than the Tupinamba, the Maori, the Iroquois, and
other ...

Good to eat: riddles of food and culture

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Why are the world's food habits or "foodways,'' as Harris refers to them, so diverse? In this scholarly yet fast-paced and very readable work, anthropologist Harris argues that "major differences in ...Leer comentario completo

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Marvin Harris is an American anthropologist who was educated at Columbia University, where he spent much of his professional career. Beginning with studies on race relations, he became the leading proponent of cultural materialism, a scientific approach that seeks the causes of human behavior and culture change in survival requirements. His explanations often reduce to factors such as population growth, resource depletion, and protein availability. A controversial figure, Harris is accused of slighting the role of human consciousness and of underestimating the symbolic worlds that humans create. He writes in a style that is accessible to students and the general public, however, and his books have been used widely as college texts.